Top Board Games for Couples and Friends

Our favorite games are light to medium style building games with minimal confrontation. They need to play reasonably fast with two players but also scale up well to four. We enjoy urban or ancient themed games, but the theme can be forgiven if the game is good.

The games that fit this criteria for us, in no particular order, are:

Special mention for games that don't play so well with two, but satisfy our requirements and are fun with friends: